American Revolution

So really, what are the chances of an uprising in modern day America?  Not only do you have police everywhere, along with National Guard/Reserves and regular military bases throughout the country, but anyone that dares to fight  is an automatic criminal/militia/fanatic/terrorist.  Of course that means you're judged by the very rules you're trying to overthrow... but what chance is there that someone could overthrow the country's entire rule system and start from scatch, or even have the support of the majority of the people who watch TV and see everything thtrough a filtered media that puts negative spin in order to dissuade the efforts of a revolution?  The problem is the majority of the population is content and complacent.  Revolutions occur when the majority is poor, pissed off, and tired of the current system.  It would require people to have no access to their books, television, movies, computers, video games, or anything else to distract them.  It would require wealth to diminish to nothing, houses to lose their value, and utilities and public programs to become completely ineffective.  I don't see any of this happening unless the US is assraped by the Middle East or communist Asia.   

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         The CEO is not the founder of the corporation, in fact it rarely is.  the CEO is simply the person that the board of directors hires to run the company and they sholder the responsibility of the billion dollar company, and they get paid for it.  You want to know why else they get paid.  who do you pay more the stock boy or the cahier?  the secretary or the accountant?  the clerk or the cash office counter?  you pay the person that has the most access to money more, so that they are less likely to steal money from you.  the CEO is running a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION!!! do you really want to pay the guy doing that with minimum wage?  also there is the fact people capable of running that kind of operation are few and far between, If you want someone capeable of doing it you are going to pay for them.  they have the skill you need, and if you want it you are going to pay for it.  You know how to flip burgers just like the billion other people, you are going to get paid based on that. 
A corporation pays for thier electricity to the power company not the govenment, and they do pay.  they pay less per kilowatt hour true, however if you have a company that makes buttons, and  somebody was willing to buy 50% of the buttons you made every year, would you give them a discount.  it's a buisness not the government so hell yes you would.  this is paying for services from business and you are right that businesses and rich use more services from businesses than a regular person would, because they can afford to buy it.  the electricity, jet, car, etc is not being provided by the government and then the cost distributed equally over socity as a whole.  thats called communism.
     However the point is that the rich use far less services that come from the govenment and paid for by taxes(the exception here being the post office system).  for instance the bus system and other public transportation, various socio-economic programs, etc are all used primarially by the poor.  they all go to places where they pay money for better service.  Having a shofer and limo as opposed to taking the bus, going to a fancy resturant rather than going to a food bank, going to an expensive doctor rather than health department, etc.  therefore they drain much less from govenment social programs, and in fact crate taxable economic cash flow with the services they recieve from other businesses.